The Fall Premiere

Fall is coming...and I couldn't be more excited. It is not that fall is my favorite season or I love the Halloween or pumpkins or anything of the sort ( I don't have my TV so the new fall season has nothing to do with it either). It is just the idea of finally seeing some variety of seasons other than summer and winter that has me going around inspecting all non-evergreen trees closely. Having spent most of my life in a coastal town, I hardly ever saw any real change in season and usually just felt it based on the level of humidity. Summer was extremely humid, monsoon: humid and winter: less humid. After switching continents several years ago, I have yet to experience a real fall. Actually until a couple of years ago, I still had not seen snow, but a week in Boston took care of that.


Few days back as I walked out of work, I looked up at the mountains to soak up the sun ( yes in the NW we try to take in as much Vitamin D as we can, when we can) and saw hues of bright orange, yellow and red peeking through the bright evergreens. The air was crisp, fresh and a little cool. I couldn't help but smile. My very first fall!!!

Thanks to my nomadic life and my latest trek to the pacific NW, I will finally experience my first real autumn. People at work think I am crazy because I keep bugging them about foliage. How orange will it get, does it rain here in fall ( they say no, but they also said that rain will end in may and it continued well into late June so I don't know) where can I go to see the real colors, will the weather remain this crisp and fresh (its been amazing here but I don't think they feel it huh!!)

Anyway, I got excited enough to write about it. I have made plans to visit the places with maximum foliage and even try some pumpkin pie. Happy fall to those who read this :)